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| Christopher Columbus | An Italian Sea Captain that sailed for Spain |
| Francisco Pizarro | The conquistador that conquered the Incan Empire |
| Encomienda | THe right for spanish to damand labor form Native Am. living on the land |
| Conquistadors | spanish exlorers that conquered the Americas |
| Hernando Cortes | Conquistador that conquered the Aztecs |
| Jamestown | First english settlement in the Americas, named after King James |
| Alantic Slave Trade | The buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas |
| Triangular Trade | Transatlantic trading network, from Europe to Africa nd the West Indies and back again |
| Columbian Exchange | sharing of goods, ideas, between America and Europe that began with Columbus voyage |
| Mercantilism | the belief that the wealth of one nation depends on its supply of gold and silver |
| Middle Passage | The middle leg of the Triangle Trade, Transported Slaves from Africa to Americas |
| Capitalism | Economic system based on privated ownership and investment of resources |
| Joint-Stock Company | stock or funds held joinly by its owner |
| Favorable Balance of Trade | The economic goal for countries, of exporting more than they imported |
| Cape of Good Hope | Southern tip of Africa |
| Ethnocentric | One ethnic group beliefs its superiority over another |
| Immunity | aquired resistance to disease or infection |
| propriety colonies | colony that was owned by a individual or private company |
| missions | place set up where Europeans could spread christianity to other parts of the world |
| Royal colonies | colonies belong to the English monarch |
| Incas | Tribe in South America |
| import | bring goods in from a foreign country to sail |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | was the line of demarcation dividing SA between Spain in the west and portugal in the east |
| Indios | Spanish word meaning Indians |
| Astrolabe | instrument used to determine altitude of the sun and stars to navigate on the ocean |
| New World | Name given to the new land discovered in what is know called Americas |
| Compass | device used to determined geographic locations by indicating directions, N,S,E,W |
